Easy Reversible Vests [Paperback]

Carol Doak (Author), Ursula G. Reikes (Editor), Kay Green (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1995

Combine your love of quilting with your sense of style! These quick-and-easy vests are fun to make and flattering to wear. An innovative reversible feature means you can make one side of your vest casual and the other side elegant and dressy.

• Choose from four different vest styles and 14 patterns that use simple rotary cutting and paper piecing

• Add a distinctive focal point to a vest with 37 different paper-pieced block designs

Includes a full-color gallery of 41 vests for inspiration; sizes range from petite to extra large

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

As a bridge between apparently incompatible items of clothing, a colorfully patterned vest can enable you to wear that blouse that never seemed to go with anything, or it can hide that waistband you hate. The pieced and applique variations of this simple but nicely presented book range from the country-quilt look to sophisticated, along with good specifics on color selection, piecing techniques, and embellishments. The 16-page, full-color gallery of vests contains clear photos of 31 vests, 14 of which are accompanied by specific directions. There are also 13 pages of reduced-size, pieced-block designs and, as an extra bonus, an actual tear-out, full-size vest pattern with cutting lines ranging for sizes petite through extra-large.

About the Author

Hometown: Windham, New Hampshire

As a bestselling author, celebrated teacher and lecturer, and award-winning quiltmaker, Carol Doak has greatly influenced the art and craft of quiltmaking for more than a decade. Her accomplishments include authoring over a dozen books and designing quilts that have appeared on the covers of nearly every quilting magazine in the U.S., including Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine and McCall’s Quilting.

Also by Carol Doak:

40 Bright and Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks

Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilts

50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars

Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!)

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: That Patchwork Place (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564770923
• ISBN-13: 978-1564770929
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #470,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As a best-selling author, celebrated teacher and lecturer and award-winning quiltmaker, Carol Doak has geatly influenced the art and craft of quiltmaking for more than a decade, both in the U.S. and internationally. Her accomplishments include a sizable collection of popular books - Easy Machine Paper Piecing, Easy Paper-Pieced Keepsake Quilts, Easy Mix & Match Machine Paper Piecing, Show Me How to Paper Piece, Easy Reversible Vests, Easy Paper-Pieced Miniature Quilts, Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!), Easy Stash Quilts, 50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars, Easy Paper-Pieced Baby Quilt, 40 Bright and Bold Paper-Pieced Blocks, 300 Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks, Simply Sensational 9-Patch Stars and her recent release, Mariner's Compass Stars, is receiving rave reviews . Carol also recently released an updated version of her best-selling Easy Reversible Vests and 50 Little Paper-Pieced Blocks. With over one million books in print, it is no secret that Carol has raised the popularity of paper piecing, her trademark technique, to heights never before seen in the world of quiltmaking.

Carol's Carol Doak Foundation Paper and Carol Doak's Keepsake Frame Cards are very popular items for paper piecers around the world.

An impressive range of her beautiful blue-ribbon quilts have been featured in several books, such as Great American Quilts 1990 and The Quilt Encyclopedia and on the cover's of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, Quilt World, Quilting Today, Ladies' Circle Patchwork and McCall's Quilting.

Carol's lighthearted approach and ability to teach have earned her high marks and positive comments from workshop participants worldwide and at national shows such as the Houston International Quilt Festival and the American Quilter's Society Show. If you have ever taken a class from Carol, you know that her enthusiasm for quiltmaking is infectious. Carol has a gift of sharing her inspiring ideas with her students in such a positive and unique way. Carol travels to teach extensively through the United States including Alaska and Hawaii and as far away as England and Australia.

In April 1999, Carol was awarded the 8th Honors Award from the Eastcoast Quilters Alliance in recognition of her outstanding influence in the field of quilting. In September 1999, her book, Easy Machine Paper Piecing, was named by Quilter's Newsletter Magazine as one of the 30 most influential books in the past 30 years. She was also nominated as one of 24 All-American Quilters in 2004 and 2005 Professional Quilter of the year.

Carol's history in the quiltmaking is nothing short of remarkable, and the future of quiltmaking will benefit from her generous knowledge, enthusiasm, and most of all from her love of quilts.

Carol lives in New Hampshire, where she claims the cold winters give her plenty of reason to stockpile a fabric stash for insulation purposes!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reccomended by the accidental quilter, August 12, 2000

By 

Mary Z. Cox (Tallahassee, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Reversible Vests (Paperback)

I bought this book to use in a class on paper piecing. It's a good intro to paper piecing and the vests are great. There are three major pattern styles--but endless possibilities. I made my Mom's birthday vest from the pattern in this book, and I made a sewing vest for myself out of quilt scraps. These are art vests and if you don't wear vests--they look great hung on the wall too. Carol Doak is clear and accurrate and she doesn't leave out any of the steps. Vests, paper piecing, a creative jumpstart--are all here--what more could you want? Mary Z. Cox the accidental quilter

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Attractive Stylish wearable Art!!, June 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Reversible Vests (Paperback)

Another of my cherished Foundation piecing books - my second Carol Doak one. What a lovely selection to choose from. I hope vests don't go out of fashion too soon. These are all very special. Vest patterns in a number of sizings and styles are included but the techniques can be used on any pattern you have. Well worth having.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comes in a fine revised edition to cover new block designs and piecing options for producing reversible vests, April 14, 2009

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Reversible Vests (Paperback)

Carol Doak's EASY REVERSIBLE VESTS comes in a fine revised edition to cover new block designs and piecing options for producing reversible vests. From choosing appropriate colors and scales to full-sized pullout vest patterns, this is especially recommended for home quilters and sewers who want something different in the way of vest projects.